Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Congress recessed last night until after the elections, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) chastised her colleagues in the House for closing with a package of deeply ideological bills that failed to move in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak on the House floor around 6:00 p.m. tonight, after last votes, to thank Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), chairman of the Senate committee with jurisdiction over District of Columbia matters, for holding the first-ever Senate hearing on D.C. statehood and the first congressional hearing on D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that the Senior Executive Service Accountability Act, H.R. 5169, which passed by voice vote on Tuesday, included Norton's amendment to protect due process rights for federal workers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a National Mall Roundtable from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in favor of Amit Mehta's nomination to become the first Asian Pacific American judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended by the Congresswoman to President Obama.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two days after asking the Senate to give the District of Columbia statehood, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be testifying at the House Rules Committee today, at 11:00 a.m. in H-313, The Capitol, to try to retrieve a vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, a vote she won shortly after being elected to Congress.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton, a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, will be delivering the keynote address today, Wednesday, September 17, around noon, at the Department of Energy (DOE) Headquarters, for Federal Labor Recognition Week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The day after asking the Senate to give the District of Columbia statehood, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she regretted that she must go to the House Rules Committee tomorrow to try to retrieve a vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, a vote she won shortly after being elected to Congress.